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Caroline Friederike Friedrich Documented profileCountry to be documented
A court painter and member of the Dresden Academy, Caroline Friederike Friedrich is also known for her numerous bouquets executed in watercolour and oil. Among the works catalogued u…
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Joshua Reynolds Documented profileCountry to be documented
British painter born in Plympton in 1723 and died in London in 1792, Joshua Reynolds is distinguished primarily as a portraitist. According to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, h…
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Jochen Seidel Documented profileGermany
The German painter Jochen Seidel, also known as Hans Joachim Seidel, lived from 1924 to 1971. Two works on paper, Come Back to Ireland Where the Green Is Like the Green in Your Paint…
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Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, born and deceased in Alba, makes industrial painting and its deployment in space a central part of his work. Born Giuseppe Gallizio, he o…
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Chaïm Soutine Documented profileFrance
Chaïm Soutine, also known as Khaïm Solomonovitch Sutin, is a Belarusian painter who emigrated to France. In 1907, in Minsk, he attended drawing classes with Michel Kikoïne under M. K…
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John Quincy Adams Documented profileAustria
Documented works by John Quincy Adams include, in particular, two pendant portraits of Mor and Gabriele Fekete-Schindler-Barney, executed in oil on canvas and each signed by the arti…
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Mario Sironi Documented profileItaly
Mario Sironi’s career combines an evolving approach to painting with a wide-ranging practice, from graphic design and stage design to architecture and mural painting, culminating in…
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Albrecht Adam Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Bavarian painter and engraver Albrecht Adam is primarily associated with battle painting, though his work is not limited to it: his oeuvre also includes genre scenes and portrait…
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Paul Saïn Documented profileFrance
Born and died in Avignon, the painter Paul Saïn grounds his work in landscape: his stays in Corsica notably fostered a body of rural views, often sketched on small panels, in a natur…
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Frans Snyders Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Frans Snyders initially devoted himself to flower and fruit still lifes, before also turning his work towards animal painting. His repertoire includes market stal…
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Charles Bouchez Documented profileFrance
French painter who lived from 1811 to 1882, Charles Bouchez is associated, in an auction listing, with a work entitled “Départ en barque”. This oil on canvas, measuring 40 × 56 cm, i…
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Guglielmo Welters Documented profileItaly
Guglielmo Welters was born in Capri in 1913 and died in Genoa in 2003. The auction listing describes «Golfo di Bordighera» as an oil painting on panel signed «G. Welters». Another li…
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Joseph Garibaldi Documented profileFrance
The French painter Joseph Garibaldi, born and deceased in Marseille, anchors a significant part of his work in the landscapes and ports of the Provençal coast. He paints regularly in…
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Eugène Cottin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and caricaturist Eugène Cottin (1841–1902) works in several fields: painting, humorous drawing for the press and book illustration. He trains at the École des beau…
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Bartholomeus Spranger Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker Bartholomeus Spranger (Antwerp, 1546 – Prague, 1611) pursues a career that takes him from Antwerp studios to imperial and papal courts…
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František Kupka Documented profileCountry to be documented
From 1911 onward, Kupka paints works with no reference to the world of objects. Verticality and circular movement are among his lines of inquiry: the Centre Pompidou dates the beginn…
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Jan Kubíček Documented profileCzechia
The Czech painter, sculptor and graphic artist Jan Kubíček (1927–2013) is associated with Constructivist and Concrete art. A documented example of his work is Progrese-Regrese (1974)…
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Luc Tuymans Documented profileBelgium
Born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium, Luc Tuymans lives and works in Antwerp. His figurative paintings generally take pre-existing images as their starting point, including photographs a…
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Cyprien Gaillard Documented profileFrance
French artist Cyprien Gaillard, born in Paris in 1980, works across photography, sculpture, video and performance. His work engages with the paradoxes of contemporary societies and t…
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Louis Marcoussis Documented profileFrance · Poland
Louis Marcoussis’s work spans Cubist painting, printmaking and illustration. His subjects range from still lifes and musical instruments to portraits, views of Paris and Breton lands…
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Bernard Cathelin Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and illustrator Bernard Robert André Cathelin made colour the organizing principle of his work: his compositions bring colours and tones together in…
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Giuseppe Casciaro Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giuseppe Casciaro is identified as an Italian painter. A work entitled “Italienische Landschaft” suggests a landscape subject: executed in mixed media on paper, it is signed and date…
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Henri Rousseau Documented profileFrance
A self-taught artist, Henri Rousseau taught himself to paint without formal academic art training and began his career as a painter in 1872. After working as a clerk to a bailiff, he…
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Emil Hünten Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johann Emil Hünten, also known as Emil Hünten, was born in Paris on 19 January 1827. Described as a Prussian painter specialising in historical scenes, he also worked as a battle pai…
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Conrad Felixmüller Documented profileGermany
Conrad Felixmüller is a painter whose works often address the social realities of the Weimar Republic. Born in Dresden on 21 May 1897, he died in Berlin-Zehlendorf on 24 March 1977.…
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Carl Hilgers Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Hilgers, also written as Karl Hilgers, was a German landscape painter who was born and died in Düsseldorf, in 1818 and 1890. He received his first lessons at the Düsseldorf Acad…
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Alois Binder Documented profileAustria · Germany
Popular genre scenes occupy a central place in Alois Binder’s painting, alongside Bavarian landscapes, scenes in traditional dress, portraits and still lifes. Born in 1857 in Hausman…
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Johann Wilhelm Preyer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Rheydt in 1803 and died in Düsseldorf in 1889, Johann Wilhelm Preyer is described as a painter devoted exclusively to still life. The biographical note describes a meticulous…
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Mirta Cerra Herrera Documented profileCuba
The Cuban artist Mirta Cerra Herrera, born in Bejucal and also known as Mirta Cerra, pursues a practice that combines painting and sculpture with work as an avant-garde designer and…
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Jan Miel Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active in the 17th century, Jan Miel is associated with the Bamboccianti group. Around 1636, he was in contact with Claude Lorrain; in 1640, he entered Andrea Sacch…
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Gustav Wiethüchter Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Gustav Wiethüchter (1874–1946) is documented in both practices, at the intersection of painting and graphic art. The works listed by MAGEDA reve…
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Henri Alphonse Barnoin Documented profileFrance
Henri Alphonse Barnoin, a French painter and lithographer born in Paris in 1882, depicts Breton figures in traditional dress, fishermen, port and market scenes, processions, and rock…
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Albert Bredow Documented profileCountry to be documented
Albert Bredow’s career took him through Riga, Moscow and St Petersburg, where he worked as a theatre set designer. He worked in Riga from 1852 to 1855, then travelled to Moscow in 18…
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Victor Gilbert Documented profileFrance
The French painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert, born in Paris in 1847, made his debut at the Salon des artistes français with still lifes. In 1873, he presented Avant le bal and Les apprê…
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Carl Gustav Carus Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), a Saxon physician and painter, brings together artistic practice and reflection on landscape in his career. In Nine Letters on Landscape Painting, publ…
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Werner Berges Documented profileGermany
German painter Werner Berges, born in Cloppenburg in 1941, is presented by Galerie Foxx as one of the representatives of German Pop Art. According to the gallery, the figure of the “…
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Dieter Schwertberger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1942 in Gresten, Lower Austria, Dieter Schwertberger, who signs his work De Es, first trains as an engineer in Vienna, graduating in 1962, before studying painting with Ernst…
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Jacob Duck Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Duck, a Dutch painter said to have lived from 1600 to 1667, is presented as an Utrecht artist who specialised in interiors with soldiers. According to Léonard Pouy’s study, his…
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Marie Joseph Orgiazzi Documented profileFrance
In an auction catalogue, Marie Joseph Orgiazzi is identified as having lived from 1945 to 1998 and is represented by a work entitled « A Federico Lorca ou le sang du poète ». Describ…
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T. Lux Feininger Documented profileGermany · United States
A painter and photographer, T. Lux Feininger pursued an artistic practice shaped by his training at the Bauhaus and by interests that also extended to music and theatre. Born in Berl…
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Bui Xuan Phai Documented profileVietnam
Born in the village of Kim Hoang, in Ha Tay Province, Bui Xuan Phai graduated from the Higher School of Fine Arts of Indochina in 1945. He subsequently taught at the Hanoi School of…
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Bruno Goller Documented profileGermany
The German painter Bruno Goller, born in 1901 and deceased in 1998, is also documented as a teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Konrad Klapheck attended his drawing class…
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Salomon Rombouts Documented profileCountry to be documented
A landscape painter associated with Haarlem, Salomon Rombouts trained with his father, Gillis Rombouts, who was also a painter. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke…
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Odilon Roche Documented profileFrance
French painter Odilon Roche, born in 1868 and died in 1947, is associated with Turnerinnen, a watercolour over pencil, signed lower right, measuring 26 × 20 cm and framed. This work…
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Tran Phuc Duyen Documented profileFrance · Vietnam
Trần Phúc Duyên (1923–1993), a Vietnamese artist born in Hanoi, worked as a lacquer artist in Hanoi; his studio received private commissions. Views of Vietnam occupy an important pla…
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Max Schoendorff Documented profileFrance
A painter, printmaker, illustrator and stage designer, as well as an author and publisher, Max Schoendorff works across the visual arts, publishing and performance. Born and died in…
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Georges Roudneff Documented profileGermany · France
Born in 1933 in Faymoreau, in the Vendée, Georges Roudneff spends his childhood in Nice, in a family in which his mother was Ukrainian and his father came from an old Russian family,…
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Franz Skarbina Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Franz Skarbina (1849–1910), born and deceased in Berlin, developed his career within the capital’s artistic life, combining artistic practice, teaching and collect…
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Adriaen van Ostade Documented profileCountry to be documented
Tavern scenes and depictions of peasant life recur in the work of Adriaen van Ostade. The view of peasants’ leisure activities evolves: the early scenes emphasise excessive behaviour…
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Heinrich Vogeler Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) developed a practice that brought painting and printmaking together with the design of interiors and the objects within…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026